Exam 1: Introduction and Overview

Which theoretical perspective is most likely to use techniques such as reframing and relabeling, bibliotherapy, advocacy, power intervention, social action, and gender-role analysis and intervention?

Which examination focuses on areas such as appearance, behavior, feeling, perception, and thinking, and is used to screen for psychosis?

Which theory operates on the premises that all relationship problems are in the present and must be solved in the present, and that once the significant relationship is improved, the troubling symptom will disappear?

According to the DSM-IV-TR, the category that accounts for a client's psychosocial and environmental problems is:

In what theoretical orientation is the therapist's job to confront clients with the restricted life they have chosen and to help them become aware of their own part in creating this condition?

Which theoretical perspective places primary emphasis on the client/therapist relationship and uses few techniques other than active listening, reflection, and clarification?

___________________ have as main assumptions that people: are competent and healthy, have the capacity to find their own solutions to the difficulties they face; and that the client is the expert on his or her own life.

Which theory assumes that people are prone to learning erroneous, self-defeating thoughts that perpetuate their difficulties and that these thoughts can be corrected to create a more fulfilling life?

Although it is not bound by prescribed techniques, this theoretical perspective focuses on developing social interest, providing encouragement, and facilitating insight into client's mistaken ideas and their personal assets.

Which theory views people as being significantly influenced by unconscious motivation, conflicts between impulses and prohibitions, defense mechanisms, and early childhood experiences?

Which theory(ies) is (are) least likely to use assessment and diagnosis in the therapeutic process?

In working within a multicultural framework, what is especially important?

Which theory states that the therapist's task is to support the client as they explore their present experience through an awareness of their internal (intrapersonal) world and the external environment?

Which theoretical perspective is active, directive and didactic, assisting clients in making plans to change specific behaviors that they determine are not working for them?

The assumption that we have the capacity to understand our problems, we have the resources within us to resolve them and that clients can move toward growth and wholeness by looking within is central to:

Which of the following is not an aspect of Adlerian therapy:

A basic assumption of ___________________ is that power inequalities and gender-role expectations influence individuals from a very early age.

Which of the following therapeutic approaches most places emphasis on an individual's competencies, avoiding defining a client by a problem, establishing a collaborative relationship where the client is the senior partner, and focusing on a client's strengths and resources?

________ consists of evaluating the relevant factors in a client's life to identify themes for further exploration in therapy, whereas ________ consists of identifying a specific category of psychological problem based on a pattern of symptoms.

____________ assumes that people are basically shaped by learning and sociocultural conditioning.